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Wind energy

Hourly wind speed and direction, everywhere, for a decade or more.

Wind teams use PastClimate to get an early, evidence-based read on a site's wind character — the seasonal pattern and the extremes — long before a met mast goes up. Full wind-rose and Weibull site characterisation is on the roadmap; today's report gives you the real monthly signal and the raw hourly vectors to build on.

How PastClimate helps

Site screening

Compare monthly average wind speed and the windiest day on record across candidate sites before committing to a met mast.

Seasonal planning

See which months run windiest and which run calm from a decade-plus of hourly averages — a first read for scheduling around low-wind periods.

Raw vector export

Download hourly wind speed and direction as CSV, one date at a time, to feed your own resource or turbulence modelling.

Extreme-wind context

Know the strongest wind day on file and how any given day compares to the long-run record.

The report

Wind Resource Screening Report

Site prospectors ranking candidates before a met mast goes up; asset managers wanting a quick seasonal-wind sanity check.

Partial — some items below are roadmap

Sample report snapshot

Wind Resource Screening Report

Real data for Perth, Australia · 10 years on file

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4.99m/s

Average wind speed, full record

5.73m/s

Windiest month, average speed

12.95m/s

Windiest day on record

on 2022-08-02

10

Years of hourly record

Monthly average wind speed (m/s)
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In your report

  • Mean wind speed by month across the full multi-year record — the windiest and calmest months at a glance
  • Windiest day on record, with the date, as the site's all-time high-wind reference point
  • Years of hourly ERA5 coverage on file, so you know how much record backs the numbers
  • Raw hourly wind speed and direction, any single date in the record, as CSV

Coming soon

  • Wind rose (direction/speed joint distribution) — needs the full multi-year hourly series aggregated, not cheaply fetchable yet
  • Weibull k/c shape and scale fit to the speed distribution
  • Indicative IEC turbine-class matching, hub-height (80–120m) extrapolation, and turbulence intensity for a certified assessment

Curated for wind energy

Paid features on PastClimate most teams in this industry reach for first.

Climate trends

Multi-year warming/cooling trend for a city.

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Compare cities

Side-by-side monthly normals for two cities.

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